Stansbury Park Observatory Complex (SPOC)
Harmons Observatory


Putting Up the Walls
27 AUG 2001 to 15 SEP 2001
(click on images for enlarged view)


051

Concrete truck loading the concrete pumper.  27 AUG 2001  McNeil photo

052

"First pour" handled by Gary Christley.  27 AUG 2001

053

The pour continues.  27 AUG 2001

054

CPC truck #2 joins in.  27 AUG 2001

055

All three CPC trucks on scene.  27 AUG 2001

056

Gary Christley near the end of the pour with Steve Bonnette.  27 AUG 2001

057

Roger Butz tosses Gary Christley one of the many brackets to which the roof track will be welded.  27 AUG 2001

058

Ken Harris tosses Gary Christley another bracket as Patrick Wiggins gets another picture.  27 AUG 2001  McNeil photo

059

Gary Christley places one of the roof track brackets.  27 AUG 2001

060

Steve Bonnette works the top of the wall.  27 AUG 2001

061

The concrete pumper truck is stuck.  27 AUG 2001

062

VERY stuck!  27 AUG 2001

063

The $500 towing operation begins.  27 AUG 2001

Ron Ford's images of the forms being removed, #s 058 through 061.
064

Forms coming off.  28 AUG 2001

065

Boyd McNeil gets a picture of the scene.  28 AUG 2001

066

Richard Brady & Hank Williams remove forms.  28 AUG 2001  McNeil photo

067

Hank Williams, Ken Harris & Siegfried Jachmann load forms on the truck.  28 AUG 2001  McNeil photo

068

Hank Williams removes a form.  28 AUG 2001  McNeil photo

069

Siegfried Jachmann hefts a form.  28 AUG 2001

070

Forms off & looking great!.  28 AUG 2001

071

Form remover crew Rashell & Richard Brady, Ken Harris, Siegfried Jachmann, Boyd McNeil, Andy Bogdan and Ron Ford.  28 AUG 2001  McNeil photo by Roger Butz

072

Looking west through the control room into the Grim Scope bay.  28 AUG 2001

073

Looking west into the Ealing bay.  28 AUG 2001  McNeil photo

074

Looking west.  Ealing bay door in foreground, Grim Scope bay door in the distance.  28 AUG 2001

075

Looking east through the control room into the Ealing bay.  28 AUG 2001

076

Looking southwest through the Grim Scope bay double door.  28 AUG 2001

077

View from the north.  07 SEP 2001

078

View from the northeast.  07 SEP 2001

079

View from the east.  07 SEP 2001

080

View from the southeast.  07 SEP 2001

081

View from the south.  07 SEP 2001

082

View from the southwest.  07 SEP 2001

083

View from the west.  07 SEP 2001

084

View from the northwest.  07 SEP 2001

085

Grinding the wall seams. 15 SEP 2001  McNeil photo

086

A cloud of dust as the wall seams are ground flush with the rest of the wall. 15 SEP 2001  McNeil photo

087

More seam grinding. 15 SEP 2001  McNeil photo

088

Seam grinders pose for a portrait. 15 SEP 2001  McNeil photo